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The Eastern Quoll is a beautiful, cat-sized marsupial carnivore with a particularly tragic history. It was recorded by Arthur Phillip in 1789 from Port Jackson and was known from a range of other localities around the harbour such as Concord, Drummoyne, Hunters Hill, Mosman, Rose Bay and even the grounds of Taronga Zoo. A small colony survived in Neilsen Park near Vaucluse up until 1963 when a female quoll was killed by a car. The specimen, brought in to the Australian Museum, turned out to be the last known individual recorded from mainland Australia. Fortunately Eastern Quolls are still present in Tasmania but the last mainland population disappeared from Sydney without much notice.
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